Feminist Quotes · Page 13

“A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.”

— George Egerton

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

— Stefan Molyneux

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

— Betty Buckley

“The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.”

— bell hooks

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

— Natalie Portman

“You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it -…

— Abhijit Naskar

“It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.”

— Fay Weldon

If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994]…

— Ishmael Reed

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I…

— June Jordan

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her…

— Mignon McLaughlin

We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their…

— Bari Weiss

At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which…

— Heather Hart

I'm such a fan of Lily's [Tomlin], for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian…

— Tina Fey

“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and…

— Michael Hardt

Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of…

— Cornelia Parker

To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values.…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The feminists are trying to tell women that there is really no difference between them and men. Just as men can be…

— Phyllis Schlafly

I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex…

— Judith Butler

In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a…

— Camille Paglia

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the…

— Arundhati Roy

I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.

— Beyonce Knowles

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

— Emma Watson

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

— Rene Veaux

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same…

— Carla Bruni

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

— Andrea Dworkin

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

— Michelle Stuart

“It was overwhelmingly white men held the keys to the doors that I needed to get through.”

— Mariam Khan

I'm a proud feminist, people get irritated with that word... but we need feminism in our country.

— Jwala Gutta

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

— Trinny Woodall

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

— Shania Twain

One day I look forward to making dinner for my husband and children. I don't want to be a career feminist.

— Lisa Haydon

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

— Catherine Marshall

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

— Hanna Rosin

Look, a conservative feminist stands for increasing responsibility and increasing personal freedom.

— Margaret Hoover

I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as…

— Dyllan McGee

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie